{"id":500040,"date":"2026-01-07T23:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/500040\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:43:15","slug":"j-t-miller-poised-for-return-after-rangers-dealt-injury-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/500040\/","title":{"rendered":"J.T. Miller poised for return after Rangers dealt injury blows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day after the Rangers were dealt two crushing injury blows with goaltender Igor Shesterkin <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/06\/sports\/igor-shesterkin-headed-to-injured-reserve-in-telling-rangers-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landing on injured reserve<\/a> and defenseman Adam Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/06\/sports\/rangers-losing-adam-fox-for-massive-stretch-in-injury-shocker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landing on long-term injured reserve<\/a>, the Blueshirts received a positive update regarding one of their stars.<\/p>\n<p>Captain J.T. Miller, out since Dec. 20 with an upper-body injury, is expected to be available for the Rangers\u2019 game against the Sabres on Thursday \u201cbarring anything out of the ordinary,\u201d head coach Mike Sullivan said after practice Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Miller practiced fully again \u2014 on the first line and the first power-play unit \u2014 after shedding the non-contact jersey late last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need everybody,\u201d Vincent Trocheck said after the Rangers\u2019 session in Tarrytown. \u201cLosing two guys like [Shesterkin and Fox] hurts. Getting a guy back like J.T. obviously, it makes it a little bit less painful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38119785\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/j-t-miller-8-new-117121555.jpg\" alt=\"J.T. Miller in action for the Rangers in December 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-38119785\"  \/>J.T. Miller in action for the Rangers in December 2025. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Miller had collected 10 goals and 22 points across 35 games before absorbing a hit from the Flyers\u2019 Nick Seeler, landing on injured reserve and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/21\/sports\/j-t-miller-set-to-miss-multiple-rangers-games-with-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missing the Rangers\u2019 seven games since<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, that\u2019s our captain,\u201d Mika Zibanejad said. \u201cOne of our top players obviously, too. So it means a lot. It means a lot for us to have him back, and he means so much for us on and off the ice. I\u2019m happy he\u2019s back battling with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38119790\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/j-t-miller-8-new-117663186.jpg\" alt=\"J.T. Miller(8) was injured during a game against the Flyers on Dec. 20, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-38119790\"  \/>J.T. Miller(8) was injured during a game against the Flyers on Dec. 20, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan didn\u2019t have any update on the severity or timeline of the injuries that Shesterkin and Fox sustained during Monday\u2019s overtime loss to the Mammoth. Fox, who didn\u2019t log a shift in the extra frame, suffered his injury late in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after the Rangers were dealt two crushing injury blows with goaltender Igor Shesterkin landing on injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":500041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[80411,1302,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-500040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-j-t-miller","9":"tag-new-york-rangers","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115856474515854348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}